Rinda, Megan and Ashley, I've mailed your seeds...happy flower gardening.
I've been cutting down the fading sunflowers that grow around my chicken pens for shade. Saving a lot of energy, I use limb loopers to cut them off right at ground level. The tiny seeds fall to the ground in the process and there is a flock of scavengers at the ready to scarf them up.
I've been hatching quail every two weeks and feeding them out to put in the freezer. I'm getting equal numbers of males and females. Found eggs in one of the cages...means the girls are ready to sort out the nicest to go into the breeding pen. The rest will be processed along with the males.
And...since this is my first year with pheasant, I'm finding fertile eggs in the pen now...instead of the normal laying season of March to June. I'm collecting them and adding to the incubator, coordinating the hatch date with chick hatches.
I wonder if the young hens have their schedule due to our unusual weather this year. Even my peach trees have a few blooms, a few of the blackberries have a second crop and I found three mom moth dill plants while weeding the turnip bed.
We like to watch the show "American Pickers". A rerun today was filmed in Checotah, Ok.
I'll wave if I see you!
